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[MicroCapital.org] NEWS WIRE: United Kingdom: Sovereign Wealth Funds Embrace Socially ...: Socially responsible investing (SRI) involves buying shares in companies that manage environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks. For example, firms which make clean technologies are favoured, while businesses which pollute environment, abuse human rights or produce nuclear arms are shunned.

[Ai Newswire] Africa investor and the United Nations convene business leaders to ...: Speaking on the role of business in pursuing the MDGs, Hubert Danso, Vice Chairman of Africa investor, commented that: “Investment partnerships continue to have a pivotal role to play in the fight against poverty. We have no doubt the business and government leaders participating in the working lunch represent a unique catalyst to activate investment partnerships in the fight against poverty and pursuit of the MDGs in Africa.” As part of Africa investor’s commitment to showcasing African capital market success stories, Africa investor will host its prestigious annual Africa investor Index Series Awards at an exclusive gala ceremony on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange the evening of the 21 of September.

[Company Updates] Press Releases on Justmeans - Money and Finance - Cultivating ...: You can imagine that the different capacities for aspiration and requirements for security in each individual will describe a different "efficient frontier", arching, as it were, over each of us. To those who limit themselves, successful risk takers may seem more sure of themselves and in that sense more secure, but they may also simply be inexperienced and unaware of the dangers they escaped.

[MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada] MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada » Blog ...: What is unclear, however, is how these two worlds can begin to find more common ground and leverage the relative strengths of each other. For example, one of the themes from SoCap last year was around finance (supply) as a driver to build a social capital marketplace.

[The Agonist blogs] Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get ...: In his conclusion he wrote: “Sri Lankan NGOs emerged in the late 1970s when the then government cracked down on democracy, transparency and accountability and killed locally-grown civil society”¦ Sri Lanka thus became a partial NGO franchise state, with the NGOs attempting to erode the country’s sovereignty ”¦The NGOs are now being squeezed and widely criticised, not only by the media, but also through massive street protests and countrywide posters. The coming years will see an outcome of the struggle between real civil society and foreign-funded NGOs.

[Solar Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com] The Art of Sustainable Investing - Renewable Energy World: Sustainable investing: described as "an approach to investing driven by the long-term economic, environmental and social risks and opportunities facing the global economy." What distinguishes current practitioners of sustainable investing from the other approaches is the conviction of their commitment to systematically integrate environmental, social and economic factors into the valuation and choice of assets and the exercise of ownership rights and duties.

[Change2 Blog Posts - Change2] UNPRI: Are investors taking the initiative? - Change2: The 2008 Responsible Investment Benchmark Report for the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia found that while the number of Australian UNPRI signatories was substantial, there were only two boutiques that have “fully integrated” ESG factors into their mainstream investment process: Portfolio Partners and Five Oceans Asset Management.

[Social Finance] Blog | Social Finance: And, most importantly, it is about achieving a social mission. This Canadian Socially Responsible Investment Review is the only comprehensive survey of socially responsible investment (SRI) in Canada.

[BEE Scorecard BEE Rating BBBEE Compliance Black Empowerment] Launch of Sustainable Development Conference « B E E Scorecard BEE ...: The key speakers and presenters are Katharine Vincent (PhD) and Tracy Cull BA SocSci (Hons) who have extensive experience in sustainable development and corporate social investment, both in a practical environment and academically. Keith Levenstein, CEO of EconoBEE, who is currently responsible for designing a system to measure the effectiveness of sustainable development activities in businesses.

[The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss] The Unusual ROI of Going Green: From Saving to Eco-Friendly Index ...: I agree most will not change easily unless the “Joneses” start giving up their God awful Hummers and the neighbors follow suit and prices for green improvements go down for the common man. I am hopeful for our future and still do my part by using Terra Pass to offset my Hyundai’s [carbon] footprint.”

[KLD BLOG] KLD BLOG » The Outsourcing of Warfare: Privatized Military ...: that gets done by contractors paid two, three or even ten times a soldier’s pay rate. In this war, our fighting men and women are given the privilege of getting shot up repeatedly, allowed to rest some while the contractors support them, and then our soldiers get sent on combat missions over and over again.

[NextBillion Comments] Do Companies That Engage in BoP Markets Outperform the Market ...: Hopefully the OM Index will continue to keep the standards high, and be very discerning about what constitutes a true BoP engagement, and in turn hopefully investors will realize that simply adding a BoP initiative to an exiting business model will not result in better financial performance, just as adding a social or environmental initiative may not affect the bottom line.

[Spotya! Blog] Do you have money to invest? : Spotya! Blog: SRI is investing in corporate businesses that have these societal concerns. SRI is choosing the businesses that will seek what is best for keeping our earth healthy.SRI is the businesses that will not only think to maximize their finances but especially the social good.

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